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“Journalistic Solidarity Can Move Mountains”

“Journalistic Solidarity Can Move Mountains”

Elena Milashina, who studied music in college, planned to write about arts and culture when she was hired by Novaya Gazeta (“New Newspaper”) in 1997. Instead, she became an investigative…
February 26, 2018
“Unite and Resist Every and All Attempts to Silence Us”

“Unite and Resist Every and All Attempts to Silence Us”

Rappler, a leading online news website in the Philippines, is fighting a legal battle for its survival, a danger signal to media freedom in the Southeast Asian country that used to pride…
February 15, 2018
Marites Dañguilan Vitug
“Duterte has said that a free press is a privilege, not a right. That's something very worrying. A free press is a right guaranteed by our own constitution.”

“Duterte has said that a free press is a privilege, not a right. That’s something very worrying. A free press is a right guaranteed by our own constitution.”

John Nery is associate editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the biggest newspaper in the Philippines. A staff member for more than 15 years, he writes opinion pieces and editorials.…
February 14, 2018

Identifying Mexico’s Missing Persons: Sandra Barrón Ramírez, a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, is designing a universal data standard to organize information about missing persons in Mexico

In February 2015, Justicia Cotidiana (“Everyday Justice”) hosted a hackathon for journalists, developers, and designers in Mexico City, Mexico. It was there that I first heard the term “black figure”…
February 12, 2018
Sandra Barrón Ramírez
El Riesgo No Sólo es Publicar, es Dónde Pisar

El Riesgo No Sólo es Publicar, es Dónde Pisar

Read in English.  El 21 de enero el grupo de WhatsApp se saturó de mensajes por una nueva emergencia: un grupo de hombres armados detuvo, amenazó y despojó de sus…
February 12, 2018
Marcela Turati
The Risks to Mexican Journalists Start Before You Even Step Out of Your Car

The Risks to Mexican Journalists Start Before You Even Step Out of Your Car

Translated by John Gibler. Leer en español. The WhatsApp group filled with messages from a new emergency: a group of armed men stopped three reporters, threatened them, and stole their cameras and…
February 12, 2018
Marcela Turati

The Science of Journalism

I came into journalism in a roundabout way. I was a voracious reader as a child, growing up in middle-class Nairobi, partly as a retreat from a difficult home situation…
February 8, 2018
Christine Mungai
Facts Are Facts, No Matter if Readers Like Them

Facts Are Facts, No Matter if Readers Like Them

We are in a time of hyper-propaganda, and not just from Russia, through social media that has reached, if not influenced, tens of millions of Americans. The president of the…
February 6, 2018
Issac J. Bailey

Photographing Massacre Survivors as Individuals, not Statistics: Anastasia Taylor-Lind, NF ’16, creates a makeshift studio in a Rohingya refugee camp

How do you photograph something you can’t see? This was the question I asked myself last September when Human Rights Watch (HRW) assigned me to cover the Rohingya crisis for them. My…
February 5, 2018
Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Reversing the Dangerous Trust Deficit

Reversing the Dangerous Trust Deficit

The New York Times recently implemented what may be an unprecedented move for a newspaper. It hired a fact checker to backstop the reporting in the D.C. bureau.Aside from cutting…
February 1, 2018
Mark Jurkowitz